When Marlen finished her side of the story, quite a saddening and pitiful one at that, she gazed towards Adam. When people heard her story, they generally all had the same set of reactions without fail. Like an ever repeating pattern.
Either they would wield an awkward expression as they did not quite know how to react to her words and her misfortune. After all, not all supernatural creatures were related to the criminal world and even those that were related to it might now have much of an influence in it. They were just an insignificant clog in the giant clock that was the lawless underworld.
Once the awkwardness went away though, the next set of emotions would be that of pity. They would tell her things along the lines of assurance— saying that everything would be okay, that all things would find a way to work perfectly in her favor with due time.